Mouth sores

Hello Family and Friends,

Here’s the latest from Houston. Jennifer is fighting the mouth sores from the chemo. Her whole mouth and throat is full of the sores. She’s not able to eat or drink anything and all her medicine is now by IV. The put her on morphine and it did not help so she now gone to a stronger medicine and they put her back on the continuous pump to control the pain. She’s being strong but she’s in a lot of pain.

Good news is that her blood pressure is under control!!!!!!! Her fever is still going up over 101.5 about every 12 to 18 hours. They take a culture every time it goes up and so far the tests are coming back good.

The mouth sores will be around for 14 to 21 days longer. She had them before and she will get through them again. Her counts are still down and they should start coming up next week. Please pray for good strong Mary cells.

Timmy downloaded 350 songs to Jennifer’s new mini I-pod and I’m taking it down later today. That will pump her up. (Thanks Aunt Ann)

Thanks for all the prayers!

Tim

note: the above entry is a copy originally posted on our ‘Caring Bridge’ website.